To the undiscerning eye, social geographer Bradley Garrett is your quintessential armchair Oxford scholar. He picked up a string of bachelor degrees from the University of California in 2003, followed by a PhD at the University of London and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Oxford University. His 10-page resume holds a laundry list of lofty accreditations—from research in capital striation to bunkerology, extrastatescraft to illicit encounter. But despite his highbrow front on paper, Garrett is a renegade.
He gained fame four years ago for a photograph of him clinging a crane nearly 1,000 feet in the air on The Shard in London. In the eight years following, Garrett has broken into nearly 1,000 locations across the world. Whether he’s scaling a building 20 stories up, flash-lighting through abandoned asylums, scouring stately homes or infiltrating the deep wells of Joseph Bazalgette’s Victorian sewer systems, no No Trespass sign thwarts him. He calls himself a “place hacker”.
“Everyday life has been stripped of most adventure to create a pre-packaged commodity of anything,” he says. “Even something like scuba diving or skydiving has become so sanitized by rules and regulations that it is difficult to be scared of those activities if you think about it rationally. The beauty of urban exploration is that it is completely chaotic—anything could happen.” For the full article click here
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